The Anthony Awards, named for Anthony Boucher, are given each year by the attendees at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention for Best Novel and Best First Novel among other categories. 

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2007 No Good Deeds by Laura Lippman.
Best First Novel: Still Life by Louise Penny

2006 Mercy Falls by William Kent Krueger.
Best First Novel: Tilt-a-Whirl by Chris Grabenstein

2005 Blood Hollow by William Kent Krueger.
Best First Novel:  Dating Dead Man by Harley Jane Kozak

2004 Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman. 
Best First Novel:  Monkeewrench by P. J. Tracy

2003 City of Bones by Michael Connelly
Best First Novel: In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming

2002 Mystic River by Dennis Lehane. 
Best First Novel: Open Season by C. J. Box

2001 Place of Execution by Val McDermid.
Best First Novel: Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong

2000 In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson. 
Best First Novel: Murder with Peacocks by Donna Andrews

1999 Blood Work by Michael Connelly.
Best First Novel: Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger

1998 No Colder Place by S. J. Rozan.
Best First Novel: Killing Floor by Lee Child

1997 The Poet by Michael Connelly
Best First Novel: Death in Little Tokyo by Dale Furutani
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Somebody Else's Child by Terris McMahan Grimes

1996 Under the Beetle's Cellar by Mary Willis Walker. 
Best First Novel: Death in Bloodhound Red by Virginia Lanier

1995 She Walks These Hills by Sharon McCrumb.  Also won Agatha and Macavity Award
Best First Novel: The Alienist by Caleb Carr. 

1994 Wolf in the Shadows by Marcia Muller
Best First Novel: Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr

1993 Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron. Won Agatha, Anthony, Edgar Awards
Best First Novel: Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely. Also won an Agatha Award.

1992 The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey
Best First Novel:  Murder on the Iditarod Trail by Sue Henry

1991 G is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton
Best First Novel:  Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell

1990 The Sirens Song of Murder by Sarah Caudwell
Best First Novel:  Katwalk by Karen Kijewski

1989 The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Best First Novel:  A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George.  Also won an Agatha Award.

1988 Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman
Best First Novel:  Caught Dead in Philadelphia by Gillian Roberts

1987 C Is for Corpse by Sue Grafton
Best First Novel:  Too Late to Die by Bill Crider

1986 B Is for Burglar by Sue Grafton
Best First Novel:    When the Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman

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